Structure studio Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa has accomplished The Cork and Wooden Home, a house in Spain that’s completed with a uncooked palette of supplies.
Situated within the farming hamlet of Navajeda, the 175-square-metre dwelling was designed by Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa to have a minimal influence on its rural environment, each visually and by way of its building supplies.
It has a prefabricated body of laminated wooden and is clad nearly fully in cork panels that echo the colors and textures of the world’s conventional stone buildings.
“It’s a small village with a powerful rural character, with small homes product of stone, and on the identical time with a detailed relationship with the pure panorama,” architect Darío Cobo Calvo advised Dezeen.
“With the identical up to date perspective, we wished to watch out in the way in which housing was inserted within the village, regarding the proportions, the place of the buildings, the scale, the supplies or leaving the terrain unaltered, as if the home was rigorously perched on the location,” Calvo continued.
“You will need to emphasise that this can be a dwelling to inhabit completely, not a vacation home to be remoted – there’s a want to be a part of a group.”
To “let nature in”, The Cork and Wooden Home’s single-storey gabled type is bisected by a kitchen and eating space with a double pores and skin of sliding doorways. These lead onto a concrete patio at both facet, permitting the extent of publicity to the skin to be managed.
The primary set of doorways opens onto interstitial, semi-outdoor areas, whereas the outer doorways, completed with corrugated plastic and metallic for an industrial really feel, result in the exterior patios.
Above the eating space, a piece of the corrugated metallic roof of the house has been swapped for a similar corrugated plastic because the doorways to behave as a big skylight. The adjoining kitchen is extra enclosed.
“One of many main challenges was methods to design, inside a easy quantity, with very strict proportions and apparently closed, a home that was the alternative – advanced, permeable, beneficiant, open to nature,” stated Calvo.
“On the one hand, the supplies are tough and pure, which give an inside ambiance of shelter,” Calvo continued.
“However, mild and clear supplies let nature enter in each house, so on a regular basis experiences are intensified, resembling wanting on the sky, listening to the rain and looking out on the large timber and mountains on the horizon.”
To the east of the central space is a extra enclosed lounge with a mezzanine library space accessed by way of a spiral metal stair, and to the west are two bedrooms.
The Cork and Wooden Home’s inside areas are completed with concrete flooring and plywood panels on the partitions and ceilings. Within the kitchen, blue-green colored cupboards are full with grey-stone tops.
Different initiatives which have lately made use of cork cladding embody a house bordering a nationwide park close to Madrid by Estudio Albar and an extension to a house in London by Delve Architects.
